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We use this website as a communication tool with all of our friends, family, and supporters at home.  We update this website with current pictures, stories, prayer requests, and anything else that happens along the way.  Check out our photo gallery to see other ministry pictures. Or read our blog to stay up to date on the day to day happenings of missionary life.   So enjoy the website and visit us often.  We look forward to visiting with you!

Our Vision

Did you know that in Italy a town or village has as its center a piazza?  It is what we would call in America a town square or large courtyard.  Typically there is a fountain or well in the center where one draws water to drink.  La piazza is where friends encounter friends, relationships are formed, and meetings take place.  It is where one goes to shop, hear a concert, or relax after a hard day’s work.  It is the center of activity.  If you were to visit a city, town or village in Italy you would find a multitude of piazzas.  If you went to a piazza it would be easy to meet new friends as the Italians are a friendly, outgoing people.  However, if you went to the piazza in search of Christian fellowship, you would have difficulty finding a brother or sister in Christ.  The piazzas, and Italy as a whole, have very few evangelical Christians.  Our vision is to see that change.  Our vision is to fill the piazzas with evangelical Christians.  Would you be willing to share in that vision with us?

Chiara and Jacopo     

Maureen, Chiara, and the grandsons at the zoo.

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Ministry Highlights

July 13, 2010 

Greetings dear friends in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! We are so thankful for our awesome God and the ministry he has allowed us to participate in.  June was a busy month preparing for the teams that began arriving at the beginning of July.  We had our annual staff meeting the last week of June which helped us get organized for our summer evangelism teams.  We currently have over 80 team members from the U.S. helping us share the gospel throughout Italy.  These teams work with existing evangelical churches to help evangelize their communities.  They are a real encouragement to these small bodies and we are so thankful for their help.  During the day they stuff mailboxes with Christian tracts and do park ministry performing puppet shows, mimes, etc.  Last week two children prayed the prayer of salvation during one of our park ministry outreaches.  In the evenings, the teams hit the piazzas performing mimes, Christian concerts, and sharing the gospel.  This summer we have three teams working with our church plant in Udine.  Ken and RuthAnn Wells, our church planters, lead them to crowded areas for the purpose of 'open-air evangelism.  They then follow up with the contacts that are made.  We will have a total of eight teams coming this summer to assist us with our ministry.

Maureen is in Pennsylvania for the summer spending time with family and continuing with the ministry there.  Chiara, the librarian from Valvasone (our home town in Italy) went to visit her with her 10 year old son, Jacopo.  They were there for two weeks visiting Washington, DC and New York City.  Chiara is an atheist but states that someday she thinks she will find her faith.  Maureen and Chiara have had numerous conversations about what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Chiara and Jacopo both went to church with her the two Sundays they were there.  Chiara speaks very good English and understood both sermons.  Jacopo doesn't speak much English but he and our two grandsons, Colby and Parker, had a great time together.  It is amazing how kids know how to communicate even when they don't speak the same language.  Many seeds were planted and we continue to pray for fruit.